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English
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"From one of our most beloved authors, a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home--now richly illustrated with almost four hundred images. A national bestseller, At Home is Bill Bryson's epic chronicle of domestic history. In this lavish new edition, his riveting room-by-room journey of discovery around his house--a Victorian parsonage in southern England--is enhanced by some four hundred carefully selected full color and...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This book presents the sharp regional differences within the integrating European continent. Four regions-Northwestern Europe, Southern Europe, Central Europe, and Eastern-Southeastern Europe-represent high, medium, and relatively less-developed levels of economic advancement. These disparities have emerged as a result of historical differences that produced and reinforced cultural and behavioural differences. The author examines the distinctions...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
"This classic two-volume history is an exciting and revolutionary look at women's history, from prehistoric times to the present. Its unique organization focuses on the developments, achievements, and changes in women's roles in society rather than placing women in historical chronology. A History of Their Own restores women to the historical record, brings their history into focus, and provides models of female action and heroism. This revised edition...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis,"--Amazon.com.
"On the day of his son's fourteenth birthday, Hashem al-Souki lay somewhere in the Mediterranean, crammed in a wooden dinghy. His family was relatively safe--at least for the time being--in Egypt, where they had only just settled after fleeing their war-torn Damascus home three years prior. Traversing...
10) From spear to flintlock: a history of war in Europe and the Middle East to the French Revolution
Author
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Author
Series
A Harvest book volume HB244
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
Explores the roots of totalitarianism and its culmination in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia.
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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Magic, witches, and demons have drawn interest and fear throughout human history. In this comprehensive primary source reader, Martha Rampton traces the history of our fascination with magic and witchcraft from the first through to the seventeenth century. In over 80 readings presented chronologically, Rampton demonstrates how understandings of and reactions toward magic changed and developed over time, and how these ideas were influenced by various...
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1994-1996
Language
English
Description
v. 1. Fom Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints / Pauline Schmitt Pantel, editor. A new kind of history / N.Z. Davis, J.W. Scott ; Writing the history of women / G. Duby, M. Perrot ; Representations of women / P.S. Pantel ; What is a goddess? / N. Loraux ; The sexual philosophies of Plato and Aristotle / G. Sissa ; The division of the sexes in Roman law / Y. Thomas ; Figures of women / F. Lissarrague ; Marriage in Ancient Greece / C. Leduc ; Body...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Story of Britain is an accessible one-volume history that clearly depict Britain's originsand explain how the past shaped the nation's current identity. He begins the story of Britain from the very earliest recorded Celtic times, and with this new edition has now brought it up to date via the Blair years and into the present day of Brexit Britain"--
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust.
Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth century still seems elusive even seventy years later. Numerous theories have sprouted in an attempt to console ourselves and to point the blame in emotionally...
19) Go back to where you came from: the backlash against immigration and the fate of western democracy
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Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
What if politicians pose a graver threat to liberal democracy than mass migration?
Brexit and Donald Trump's victory were just the beginning--and Marine Le Pen's defeat does not signal a turning of the tide. --From the Introduction
From Europe to the United States, opportunistic politicians have exploited the economic crisis, terrorist attacks, and an unprecedented influx of refugees to bring hateful and reactionary views from the margins of political...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
For review see: Roderick A. McDonald, in The economic historic review : a journal of economic and social history, vol. 46, no. 2 (May 1993); p. 423-424. - Hiliary Beckles, in Slavery and Abolition : a journal of slave and post-slave studies, vol. 14, nr. 2 (August 1993); p. 128-129. - The essays in this book (e.g. by Pieter Emmer) describes e.g. the transfer of slavery from the Old World, its role in forging the interdependence of the economics bordering...